"If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins."

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Source : Henry Williamson (2011). “The Gale of the World”, p.252, Faber & Faber

Henry Williamson

#Mother Quotes #Ocean Quotes #Nurse Quotes

“My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain uses of the intellect, by favoring certain definitions of intelligence and wisdom, and by demanding a certain kind of content - in a phrase, by creating new forms of truth-telling.”
“I have never consciously exploited the fact that I am a woman. I wouldn't dare try that even if I knew how to. I have too much respect for my male colleagues to think they would be particualrly impressed.”
“I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.”
“This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.”

Source : "The Q&A: Natalie Jeremijenko, thingker". More Intelligent Life Interview, www.economist.com. September 20, 2010.
“A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is sensitive; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.”

Source : "Our Blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.
“Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.”

Source : "Prenticeana: Or, Wit and Humor in Paragraphs". Book by George D. Prentice, 1859.
“Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.”
“I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.”

Source : "Hearts and Minds" by Roberto Suro, New York Times Magazine, December 29, 1991.

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